Pro-Trump FBI protest cancelled after not one demonstrator showed up

Pro-Trump FBI protest cancelled after not one demonstrator showed up

Johanna Chisholm
Mon, August 15, 2022 at 7:58 AM·

https://news.yahoo.com/pro-trump-fbi-protest-cancelled-125815922.html

A pro-Trump protest that was scheduled to be held outside the FBI headquarters in Washington DC over the weekend was cancelled after it was promoted on far-right blogs as a suspected “trap”, The Daily Beast reported.

Following the FBI raid at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, supporters of the former president began reupping a call to arms across social media platforms and alt-right blogs to coordinate protests outside the offices of the federal agency responsible for domestic intelligence and security service.

A Sunday demonstration outside the headquarters in the nation’s capital was first promoted by the far-right Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times, who reported shortly after the 8 August raid at Trump’s Florida residence that a veteran named Adam Hardage had called for a demonstration on the following Sunday “to protest the out of control FBI and its actions against President Trump”.

The outlet later reported on Thursday, just a few days before the event was scheduled to happen, that it had been cancelled after conspiracies began speculating throughout pro-Trump media forums that the event was a “trap” and could perhaps be co-opted by the same agency the supporters were protesting.

Demonstrators in support of the twice-impeached president did manage to successfully gather outside the federal agency’s offices in Riverside, California, with approximately 50 people convening on Wednesday – just two days after the raid – adorned with “in Trump we trust” signs and MAGA flags and hats, according to CBS.